ETHEL MORGAN SMITH
Since 2017 Ethel Morgan has been professor emerita of English-West Virginia University, where she taught creative writing, African American literature, Women’s Studies, drama and Southern literature for 24 years.
Further teaching: Virginia Tech (Nikki Giovanni and I established the African American Studies Program), Randolph College, Universität Tübingen (Germany), Monash University (Australia), University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Smith has published three books:
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Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement. (August 2023) winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize
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From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (2000 & 2017)
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Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany (2012). The African American Community at Hollins College has also been adapted to a play for the stage, African Violets.
Other publications: The New York Times, Callaloo, African American Review, University of Florida Journal, STIR Journal, Green Mountains Journal, Midnight & Indigo Journal, De Standaard (Brussels, Belgium), Connotation Press, Tusculum Review, Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction (Germany).